LOL

Not necessarily Gospel, but:

Laugh Out Loud.

... and I always thought it could mean:

Lots Of Love.

ATB from George

PS: If it never meant lots of love then I have misread lots of phone texts!

Either.

Loss of literacy.

Lots of litigation.

Try

LMAO - "Laughs my ass off" . Another wonderful invention of internet chat rooms...LOL

ROTFLMAO

SBTAS


(Slightly better than a smiley)

LSMMBA

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Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
SBTAS


(Slightly better than a smiley)

push it.

I hate these text speak acronyms. Thankfully at school I was taught English, which is a very broad and fine language with influences from both the romance and Germanic languages.

Can I just add that Pink Floyd never made albums called DSOTM, WYWH, A, or even TW, although Jethro Tull did make an album called 'A'.

I did hear a comedian talking about how his mother had started texting, and thought LOL meant 'Lots of Love' and not 'Laughs Out Loud', and how this injected a bizarre sense of sarcasm into her messages, e.g. 'You are lovely LOL'.

I will go and sit in a quite place now, and drink some tea.

If you text a lot , saving characters is a cost thing, as is punctuation.

If you are from Yorkshire, do you SPEAK English though?

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I did hear a comedian talking about how his mother had started texting, and thought LOL meant 'Lots of Love' and not 'Laughs Out Loud', and how this injected a bizarre sense of sarcasm into her messages, e.g. 'You are lovely LOL'.

Us old 'uns could be forgiven for this I think.

I am fairly sure that my use of LOL would have been unsderstood as it was meant!

ATB from George

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ROTFLMAO

ROTF Leave Me Alone O.K?

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push it.

O.K.

I put an old telly in the local rag classifieds.

This morning I received a text off a "potential purchaser"

"Please i wud like 2 buy the Lcd.this my number"

Far out dude.

Has Terry Franks lent Munch a mobile?

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Originally posted by BigH47:
If you text a lot , saving characters is a cost thing, as is punctuation.

If you are from Yorkshire, do you SPEAK English though?

On text messages quite acceptable, but not when you have a keyboard to type on in front of you, that is just laziness.

I loved it on 'Grumpy Old Men' when Rory McGrath said how he uses correct punctuation, including apostrophes, I do the same, mainly just to be an old stick in the mud.

Of cos' we 'speek' English propper up 'ere in God's own earth. 'Ast thou never read a copy of 'Teach Thissen Tyke' by Austin Mitchell? A finer tome on the correct use of 't' language thou will never put thee paws on.

BBC North Glossary

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Originally posted by GFFJ:

Laugh Out Loud.

Ah, I just thought there were lots of people called Laurence on the internet!

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LSMMBA

Laugh So Much My Balls Ache...

This thread reminded me of this cartoon from Private Eye...

20 years ago I knew it as Little Old Lady. As in driving and shopping, slowly getting there and trying everyone's patience.